Matt Johnson: I have tried to stay up to date
with teaching methods and content through attending a few workshops. Since
enrolling as an AP teacher, I've been to a few content-driven workshops,
but AP [also] tries to give you some teaching tips on how to get this
stuff across. That's been the bulk of my professional development. As
far as content goes, I'm in a great city. There are a lot of good things
to read, a lot of things going on, that make teaching government absolutely
a wonderful experience. You can make teaching government wonderful anywhere
but you may have to buy a Washington Post or a New York Times, and you
probably want to watch C-SPAN now and again. You'll have the advantage
of being in a state, so that could make things interesting, too.